It’s rare that Chip Ganassi isn’t seen without a smile on his face. But if you think the veteran IndyCar and NASCAR team owner is smiling even more than usual this year, you would not be mistaken, particularly on the IndyCar front….
When Hélio Castroneves claimed his first three Indianapolis 500s, they each came while dressed in the red and white colors of Marlboro Team Penske. If there was to be a fourth, it would have to come in a different shade. Castroneves was…
To say the 1996 open-wheel race season was perhaps the strangest ever seen in Indy car racing is an understatement. The marquee Indianapolis 500 was run without any drivers from Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART), which essentially boycotted the race when the…
Takuma Sato crossed the yard of bricks after 200 laps in August, taking the twin checkered flags for the second time in his career, and then there was silence. Literal crickets. The race was attended by a record zero fans, a byproduct…
Just in time for Sunday’s 105th Running of the Indianapolis 500, a new book will be released the same day that chronicles the contentious split between Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) and the upstart Indy Racing League (IRL) in 1996. Indy Split…
There are few better ways to capture a moment in time than a group photo. Unfortunately, coordinating everyone involved can be a hassle, and that hassle becomes even bigger if everyone involved has to be driving an IndyCar at speed. Rahal Letterman…
Scott Dixon was fastest in Wednesday Indianapolis 500 practice but issued no boisterous claims over what it meant or didn’t mean regarding the rest of the month. The six-time NTT IndyCar Series champion posted a 226.829 mph lap in his No. 9…
The 2021 NTT IndyCar Series season is well on its way to going down as one of the more historic, or at least competitive, campaigns in recent memory of American open-wheel racing for several reasons. First, let’s start with the obvious: Race…
One day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States recommended the lifting of most mask mandates for persons vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, the NTT IndyCar Series announced that it is canceling the Honda Indy Toronto event…
Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Bobby Unser, one of the most colorful, outspoken and popular drivers in the history of “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing,” died Sunday, May 2 at his New Mexico home. He was 87. Unser won the Indianapolis 500 in…